Users are discussing a new “Has your question been answered” popup in Discourse, which they find intrusive and difficult to permanently dismiss. seanblue notes the popup reappears after dismissal and suggests it should be limited to one-time prompts, such as during a tutorial or per topic. tempogain and nathank express similar frustration, with nathank disabling the solved plugin entirely. ganncamp highlights the issue in announcements, suggesting trust levels or category exclusions could help. JammyDodger clarifies that category-specific settings exist under admin settings, but these may be overridden by global options like “allow solved on all topics.” JammyDodger also provides a CSS workaround to hide the popup via a theme component, which ganncamp confirms works.
The new “Has your question been answered” popup (pictured below) is too aggressive and can’t actually be dismissed. You can dismiss it temporarily by clicking the x, but if you come back to the topic later it prompts you again. This certainly seems like a bug to me.
However, even if that was fixed I feel like asking this in every topic you create is overkill. I know it’s limited to categories that allow solutions to begin with, but even in those not every topic needs a solution. To me it seems like this would be better as a one-time thing like a walk me tutorial the first time you make a topic in a category that allows solutions. Once per topic visit (current behavior) and even just once per topic both sound like a huge annoyance to me.
Wow, that’s really saying something! I’m not an admin on the site I use, so I can’t do that. For now I decided to block it by class via an ad blocker. But ideally it should be possible to disable it globally as a plugin/site setting and it should really only show up once per topic or maybe even once per user ever.
I’m facing this every single time I’m pulled back into one of the Announcements I’ve posted in my Community because of a user question/response.
In general, Announcements aren’t usually going to be solved. At minimum I’d like to see an exclusion for this feature either on individual categories or at a trust level. (Surely we can trust tl2+? tl3+? to properly mark their topics solved?)
I’m pretty sure you can exclude entire categories. For example, here on Meta you can’t solve a Contribute > Feature topic as far as I can tell.
My problem is that some categories have a mixed use case, where some topics will have solutions and others won’t. There’s really nothing that can be done about that case right now.
